Hammett v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• examining context of questioning and testimony to determine 26 whether false impression of past law-abiding behavior given
• describing rule that “when an accused testifies gratuitously as to some matter that is irrelevant or collateral to the proceeding, as with any other witness he may be impeached by a showing that he has lied or is in error as to that 43 matter” (emphasis added)
• defendant may be impeached with evidence of misconduct to rebut his own assertions of good moral character
• prohibiting such “bootstrap[ping]” during cross-examination

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

100 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Delk v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-04-21· cited 366×
• Skillern v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1995-01-18· cited 298×
• Alexander v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-07· cited 252×
• James v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2003-03-13· cited 234×
• Murphy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-06-21· cited 199×
• Poole v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1998-07-30· cited 196×
• Pyles v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-06-01· cited 138×
• DeLeon v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2002-05-08· cited 118×
• Comer v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-06-28· cited 95×
• Bowley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-05-05· cited 82×
• Hedicke v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-06-21· cited 77×
• Lopez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-05-08· cited 75×
• Turner v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1999-09-29· cited 73×
• Phelps v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 1999-07-29· cited 60×
• Hernandez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1998-11-18· cited 60×
• Raymond Lumsden v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2018-11-08· cited 60×
• Booker v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 1996-08-07· cited 59×
• R.X.F. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1996-05-01· cited 56×
• Ex Parte Guzmon
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-04-08· cited 48×
• MacDonald v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1989-02-22· cited 38×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Morgan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-07-10· cited 210×
• Shipman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-09-10· cited 159×
• Murphy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-10-10· cited 135×
• Ochoa v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-04-26· cited 108×
• Reese v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-01-21· cited 101×
• Hoffman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-10-09· cited 77×
• Nelson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-01-09· cited 57×
• Ex Parte Carter
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-09-23· cited 36×